[quote]zahmad wrote:
[quote]reddog6376 wrote:
And still you refuse to address the high ranking CAIR members who have been CONVICTED of supporting terrorism. [/quote]
As I said before, many have been addressed in the pdf i linked to.
ISMAIL ROYER
In January 2004, Royer pled guilty to weapons charges. He did not plead guilty to any charge of “terrorism.” Any criminal action to which he pleaded guilty was done when Royer was no longer employed with CAIR and it was certainly not at CAIR’s direction.[/quote]
Royer and his 10 codefendants are alleged to have:
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Supported Lashkar-i-Taiba by actions to “provide for, prepare a means for, and take part in” terrorist adventures in Kashmir, as well as in Chechnya, the Philippines, and elsewhere.
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Carried out acts “[w]ithin the United States, to unlawfully, knowingly, and intentionally enlist and engage with intent to serve in armed hostility against the United States.”
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Used false passports, as well as pursuing activities to “transport and receive firearms and ammunition in interstate commerce with reason to believe that such firearms and ammunition would be used to commit a felony.”
These charges are contained in 41 counts and 71 evidentiary items of information, comprising extensive arms acquisition, military training, and recruitment operations, continuing through travel to and violent acts and training in Kashmir, and including clandestine propaganda for terrorism in Kashmir and terrorist training in Bosnia-Hercegovina, among other illegal activities.
He plea bargained down to the weapons charge. Actually he, commited these acts before he became a member of CAIR, becase apparently, that’s the sort of people they attract.
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BASSEM EL-KHAFAGI
El-Khafagi was never an employee of CAIR and was never convicted on terrorism charges. According to the Associated Press (AP) article announcing his plea, federal officials stated that he was charged with writing bad checks in February and June of 2001. El-Khafagi was an independent contractor for CAIR, effective November 2, 2001. The actions of which he was accused occurred before any relationship with CAIR had commenced and without any knowledge by CAIR’s of any wrongdoing on his part. Writing bad checks is a criminal offense, not terrorism. Surely if there had been strong evidence of terrorist activities, the Justice Department would have vigorously pursued those avenues and not allowed him to plead guilty to non-terrorism related charges.[/quote]
At the time of his arrest, Khafagi was a community affairs director of CAIR, so I guess that’d be an employee now wouldn’t it? He was charged with funneling money to promote terrorist activities through the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), of which he was a founding member, but plea bargained down to bank fraud.
You do realize that Al Capone was only ever convicted of tax evasion? Do yo uhonestly expect us to belive that’s all he was guilty of?
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RABIH HADDAD
Haddad was never an employee of CAIR, was â??deported for overstaying his tourist visaâ?? and was “never charged with a crime.” He was never an employee or associate of CAIR. His only association with CAIR was as a speaker at a single CAIR chapter event. He was not a “CAIR fundraiser,” as is sometimes claimed.
GHASSAN ELASHI
Elashi was never an employee or officer of CAIR. The fact that Elashi was once briefly associated with one of our more than 30 regional chapters has no legal significance to our corporation since any actions he took were outside the scope and chronology of his association with one of our chapters.[/quote]
He wasn’t just associated with it, he was a board member of the Texas chapter. Again, not some random volunteer, a freaking board member.
you still refuse to address Ali Al-Timimi, Muthanna Al-Hanooti, Siraj Wahhaj, or Aldurahman M. Alamoudi of the AMC and AMF, or Nihad Awad & Mohammad Nimer’s vocal support for both Hamas and the PLO.